The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, November 04, 2009

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OUTLOOK: Cognizant Q3 net income rises 22% on strong organic growth
Looks to end the year with higher revenues. Chennai, Nov. 3 Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, the US-based provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, expects to end the year better than ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Nation expects transparency
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, are doing no good to the cause of good governance and integrity in public life by their ambiguous pronouncements on the persistent allegations of corruption ...

NEW BUSINESS: TCS bags £150-m deal from UK Govt body
Mumbai, Nov. 3 Tata Consultancy Services is understood to have bagged a £150-million (Rs 1,164 crore) software implementation contract from the Cardiff City Council, its first win from the local government space in the ...

HARDWARE: New Sony Vaio X series launched
Sony India announced on Tuesday that it plans to begin an aggressive marketing campaign in the country. The Sony India Managing Director, Mr Masaru Tamagawa, told reporters after the launch of the new Sony Vaio X series, “We are planning ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: BSNL to share towers with Sistema
While sharing BSNL's infrastructure will enable the existing and new operators in faster roll out of their network across the country, for the PSU it is a new revenue ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: Mahindra Satyam, Saab in pact
Mahindra Satyam will partner with Sweden-based Saab to develop the latter’s operations in India for the global defence and homeland security market. The two companies have initiated the establishment of a Centre of Excellence for ...

SOFTWARE: DQE to produce animated ‘Lassie’
DQE, an animation and gaming development company, will co-produce a €8.37-million television series based on the popular character Lassie. The animated series is being developed by the US-based Classic Media that owned the original rights ...

OUTLOOK: Cabinet panel to speed up Unique Identification project
New Delhi, Nov. 3 An 11-member Cabinet Committee to expedite decision-making and implementation of the Unique Identification (UID) project has been ...

EVENTS: CII Kerala IT to host summit in Dec
Kochi, Nov. 3 As part of its efforts to accelerate the growth of IT in Kerala and recognise the State’s emergence as a prominent IT destination, the CII Kerala State Council is organising – India IT Summit 2009 at ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Raja meets telecom operators
New Delhi, Nov. 3 The Communication and IT Minister, Mr A. Raja, on Tuesday met private players to discuss various issues including better utilisation of the USO fund, possibility of lower tariffs and rural ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: RCom, Loop too join per second billing regime
Mumbai, Nov. 3 Reliance Communications and Loop Mobile said on Tuesday that they would also bill their mobile telephony subscribers on a per ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: BSNL to offer per second billing in post-paid soon
Hyderabad, Nov. 3 After introducing the paisa-per second in the pre-paid segment, the public sector BSNL is now contemplating offering the scheme for the post-paid subscribers ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Vodafone 1p/sec plans in Kolkata
Vodafone Essar has launched calls at one paise per second for all local and STD calls for its new and existing customers in Kolkata, according to a company release. To avail themselves of the offer, the customers have to do one time recharge with ...

From eWorld

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Fishing for small deals
The tech M&A scene is stirring to life again but vendors are looking for a modest catch.. If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” posed the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The oft-quoted line underlines humanity’s ...

SECURITY: An eye for security
How Microsoft keeps a protective eye on its employees and premises.. It was a Friday evening and it being the last working day of the week all but one employee had left the Colombo office of Microsoft Corporation. The woman staffer had to ...

SECURITY: eLife after death
Suppose I kick the bucket now, what happens to my data in all the social networks, e-mail sites and photo and video sharing sites? How will the sites know I am dead? How long will they keep my data? What if some hacker gets access to my ...

SECURITY: Positive step forward
The IT Amendment Act 2008 will fill many lacunae in the law as it stood.. Close observers of the cyber crime scene in India had, for long, carried on a strident campaign in favour of making penalties under the IT Act 2000 very stringent. The ...

STORAGE: Efficiency in store
A feel of the action at the automated distribution centre of Redington.. A warehouse is no longer a dumping place with large volumes of goods scattered all over. It is now an efficient storage place with technology at the core ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Wrong technology can mean poor ROI’
Sybase explains why databases need to support superior performance.. Currently, the absence of a 3G/4G next generation network within India has slowed down the process of adopting mobile applications, feels Sunil Jose, Managing Director, India ...

INTERVIEW: Services Computing in spotlight
IBM’s research official explains why it is key for future growth.. Services Computing is gaining importance in the Indian IT sector as the country increases its share in the global services sector. IEEE, the world’s leading ...

BOOKS: Transforming data into insight, profitable decisions
That is the challenge where IT will be a critical contributor to success.. As principles-based enforcement takes hold, senior management in capital market firms will have to develop the capability to demonstrate accountability over the outcomes ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: It’s for ‘ME’
HCL Infosystems Ltd has launched its new series of Notebooks and Netbooks under the brand name ‘ME’ i.e. ‘Mobile Excitement’. HCL’s new range comes with features such as ‘Split Me’ where one can ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Wireless router
Netgear has announced the availability of its “RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router WNDR3700.” The latest wireless router has features such as “ReadyShare for high-speed access to a USB hard drive from any device on ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 1. Which European nation has become the first country in the world to declare Internet broadband access a ...

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